16 thoughts on “Peace that Passes (Sur-passes) Under-Standing”
Ok… Here’s my biggie or today. If you are absorbed by whether there IS a personal God and, if so, what your relationship with that being is, if that takes up a lot of your “hard drive,” if it’s robbing you of your peace, has “religion” or “spirituality” become an addiction for you? If so, how does one respond and react to that…
The idea of religion or spirituality is an idea and not the thing you seek. It is that which one stands under. Understanding is not the same thing as knowing
Yeah, I got that. I’m just wandering if the idea of searching for it can become an addiction and how one would shed themselves of that. I ask because I think that’s where I got hung up in Seeker. No matter what happened, she just went right on looking for those answers. If that’s so, she needs to change her behavior (belief system)?
She has been where she wanted to be the whole time
I know what you’re meaning by that. That she has always been right where she was supposed to be in the Creator. But what if she understands it differently? What if the search has become the Creator for her? Does that make sense?
Yes she is the creator and god of the understanding she has made.
Maybe she should try and find the place the creator is not
?
She has searched for the creator like a fish looking for water
Yes, she has. But she doesn’t know what she’s doing is fruitless because she’s already in the Creator. So how does she become aware? In the real world, how would that come about? How would she come to the realization? I don’t know how else to put it.
It is not fruitless at all. She just feels seperate from all the beauty and wonder she finds and has missed the beauty and wonder of herself. She sought the creator “out there” which is most valid. But has not known yet or appreciated the creator within
Pardner, I’m so sorry to be slow about this, but what would be the vehicle or precipitating event might trigger that understanding in her? That’s what I’m missing in that middle part of the story, I think… (Don’t smack me! LOL)
🙂 she just has to figure out that what she is attempting is impossible.
She is attempting to enjoy a beautiful sunrise by painting a perfect picture of it and is continually disappointed. Yet the sunrise in all its wonder is just beyond her canvas
Damn, son! You’re a hard one! I mean in all likelihood she wouldn’t just have a V-8 moment and say, oh yeah! I get it now.
Its like trying to describe the taste and texture of a rich dark chocolate cake with exquisite cream cheese based icing to someone who has never tasted it.
Ok… Here’s my biggie or today. If you are absorbed by whether there IS a personal God and, if so, what your relationship with that being is, if that takes up a lot of your “hard drive,” if it’s robbing you of your peace, has “religion” or “spirituality” become an addiction for you? If so, how does one respond and react to that…
The idea of religion or spirituality is an idea and not the thing you seek. It is that which one stands under. Understanding is not the same thing as knowing
Yeah, I got that. I’m just wandering if the idea of searching for it can become an addiction and how one would shed themselves of that. I ask because I think that’s where I got hung up in Seeker. No matter what happened, she just went right on looking for those answers. If that’s so, she needs to change her behavior (belief system)?
She has been where she wanted to be the whole time
I know what you’re meaning by that. That she has always been right where she was supposed to be in the Creator. But what if she understands it differently? What if the search has become the Creator for her? Does that make sense?
Yes she is the creator and god of the understanding she has made.
Maybe she should try and find the place the creator is not
?
She has searched for the creator like a fish looking for water
Yes, she has. But she doesn’t know what she’s doing is fruitless because she’s already in the Creator. So how does she become aware? In the real world, how would that come about? How would she come to the realization? I don’t know how else to put it.
It is not fruitless at all. She just feels seperate from all the beauty and wonder she finds and has missed the beauty and wonder of herself. She sought the creator “out there” which is most valid. But has not known yet or appreciated the creator within
Pardner, I’m so sorry to be slow about this, but what would be the vehicle or precipitating event might trigger that understanding in her? That’s what I’m missing in that middle part of the story, I think… (Don’t smack me! LOL)
🙂 she just has to figure out that what she is attempting is impossible.
She is attempting to enjoy a beautiful sunrise by painting a perfect picture of it and is continually disappointed. Yet the sunrise in all its wonder is just beyond her canvas
Damn, son! You’re a hard one! I mean in all likelihood she wouldn’t just have a V-8 moment and say, oh yeah! I get it now.
Its like trying to describe the taste and texture of a rich dark chocolate cake with exquisite cream cheese based icing to someone who has never tasted it.